Frank Pé

Frank Pé (15 July 1956 – 29 November 2025), often signing solely as Frank, was a Belgian comic book artist, best known for Broussaille and Zoo.

Life and career Frank Pé was born in Ixelles on 15 July 1956. After studying sculpture for three years at the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels (with costudents like Bernard Hislaire), he began to create comics and illustrations for Spirou magazine, specializing in articles about animals. The fictional presenter of these stories, an adolescent named Broussaille, later got his own series, putting Pé in the limelight.

In the meantime, he also created L'élan, a moose whose aim in life is to have his own comic and his own albums. His first album was the one-shot Comme un animal en cage (Like an Animal in a Cage), written by Thierry Martens, then editor-in-chief at Spirou. Beginning in 1994, he worked on his two main series: Zoo, planned as a trilogy, and Broussaille. Zoo is a romantic and nostalgic series, while Broussaille is contemporary, allowing the author to intertwine it with his own life – featuring adventures in Brussels and in countries he has visited, such as Japan. Apart from art and comics, Pé's main interest was animals. He raised 50 reptiles, including 16 crocodiles.

Pé died on 29 November 2025, at the age of 69.